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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Speakers include:
Bryant O’Hara is a programmer, poet, and musician (not always in that order, sometimes all at once) who has been published among the winners of the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s annual poetry contest.
Kyoko M is the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of the Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone science fiction dragon-hunting series.
Alan Jones, a former columnist for The Atlanta Tribune and a graduate of the Robinson School of Business, published his third science fiction novel, Heretics, late last year.
Poet and author Edward Austin Hall co-edited the 2013 anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, as well as a 2017 Philip K. Dick-themed issue of ART PAPERS magazine.
Ian Campbell, director of the Arabic program at Georgia State University and the author of a forthcoming book on Arabic-language science fiction, has written previously on that topic for Science Fiction Studies and the New York Review of Science Fiction.
